Operation Mincemeat Ending Explained (In Detail)
Warning: contains SPOILERS for Operation Mincemeat.
The ending of the movie Operation Mincemeat reveals that there was more to the titular deception operation than its sequence of actual events. The World War II drama tells the story of a pivotal British-led mission that helped bring the Allies to their eventual victory. In an effort to divert the Germans from the Allies' Sicily invasion, a plan was devised by Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfayden) called «Operation Trojan Horse.»This plan, soon renamed «Operation Mincemeat,» involved a decoy corpse dressed as a Royal Marines major and carrying false documents to be found by German spies.
Much of Operation Mincemeat's events are true, including the inspiration behind the plan: section 28 of the 1939 Trout Memo, which was itself taken from the plot of the crime novel The Milliner's Hat Mystery by Basil Thomson. Higher-up commanders express doubt and dismissal of the plan, with one of its most outspoken critics, Admiral John «M» Godfrey (Jason Isaacs), calling the idea the most "precarious"of anything outlined in the Trout Memo. Despite its risks, Operation Mincemeat was given clearance to follow through. Fortunately, the plan succeeded and became a major turning point in World War II for Allied forces.
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Based on Ben Macintyre's book of the same name, Operation Mincemeat expresses the convoluted dangers involved in the mission along the way, showing the hiddenside of World War II's intelligence battleground while also focusing on a personal friendship and including some factless plot points. Here is an explanation of the ending of the movie Operation Mincemeat and why its events were depicted this way.
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